Isata is a passionate healthcare leader with nearly two decades of experience advancing equity, safety, and compassion across clinical, public health, and community settings. With a background in both business and public health, she has led programs focused on patient safety, maternal health, culturally responsive care, and health equity. She is deeply committed to amplifying the voices of those often unheard and creating systems that prioritize dignity, access, and healing. Her professional journey has included facilitating community-led maternal health councils, leading ethnographic work with marginalized populations, and managing public health responses during critical moments in our nation's history. Whether working in hospitals, health systems, or government, Isata leads with empathy, strategy, and a heart for service. As a board member of Touch No More Ministry, Isata is deeply aligned with the organization's mission to provide a safe, non-judgmental, and nurturing environment for survivors of sexual abuse. She believes in the power of restoration, storytelling, and supportive community to break generational cycles of trauma and foster hope and healing. Outside of her professional life, Isata enjoys crafting, sewing, traveling, and spending time with her husband and their three children. Isata brings her whole self —mother, advocate, leader, and servant —to this work and is honored to support survivors on their healing journey.